Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2009-11-18, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Well, I do not think that you can do gene sequencing or number crunching
> on current mobile phones.  So there are really programs which are not
> needed on all architectures and even if you find a binary package which
> claims to do the job it is just useless.  Even if I agree with your
> arguing that each program at least theoretically should build on any
> architecture (if not it is a bug) in some cases it looks foolish to
> provide binary packages just for the sake of it.  This is was Charles
> meant when he wrote: We should trust the maintainer if a specific
> program is not needed for a certain architecture.

Or the porters (c.f. xorg video or drivers on s390).  But that's what
P-a-s is for, at the moment.  Still it ought to be buildable everywhere,
there might not be clusters of arm yet but I saw offers for clusters of mips.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern